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The Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology
Pray, Carl E.; Naseem, Anwar - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
This paper examines the economic determinants and impacts of agricultural research, particularly biotechnology research …, with a view to understanding the potential of agricultural biotechnology to address the needs of the poor in developing … revolution, agricultural biotechnology research is primarily being conducted by private firms in industrialized countries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755009
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The Economic Impacts of Biotechnology-Based Technological Innovations
Traxler, Greg - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004
Global adoption of transgenic crops reached 67.7 million hectares in 2003 from 2.8 million in 1996. Delivery has occurred almost entirely through the private sector and adoption has been rapid in areas where the crops addressed serious production constraints and where farmers had access to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755059
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Chapter 50 Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries
Herdt, Robert; Toenniessen, Gary; O'Toole, John - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2641-2667). 2007
This paper reviews the tools applied in plant biotechnology and explores the prospects for biotechnology to generate … capacity to use the tools in developing countries is described. Plant biotechnology includes four primary sets of techniques … biological scientists hold there is no significance to the origin of DNA, this possibility has embroiled biotechnology in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024074
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Chapter 49 Private Agricultural Research
Pray, Carl E.; Fuglie, Keith O.; Johnson, Daniel K.N. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2605-2640). 2007
This chapter serves to assess the quantity and impact of private agricultural research in developing countries, alongside the policies which affect that research. To provide context, an outline of the history, size and structure of private research presents data on research expenditures by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024075
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National Agricultural Biotechnology Research Capacity in Developing Countries
Cohen, Joel; Komen, John; Zepeda, José Falck - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004
Adequate public research capacity is key to the appropriate development of biotechnology, including genetically …), introducing products of public research depend on indigenous capacity. This paper defines capacity for agricultural biotechnology … remaining for capacity, research and development. Knowledge of investments in public biotechnology improves policy decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755003
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From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution: How will the Poor Fare?
Pingali, Prabhu; Raney, Terri - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2005
The past four decades have seen two waves of agricultural technology development and diffusion to developing countries. The first wave was initiated by the Green Revolution in which an explicit strategy for technology development and diffusion targeting poor farmers in poor countries made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005553374
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Big Data and Climate Smart Agriculture - Review of Current Status and Implications for Agricultural Research and Innovation in India
Rao, NH - 2018
innovation for climate smart agriculture (CSA). CSA refers to an integrated set of technologies and practices that simultaneously … accelerate research and innovation for CSA. Three levels at which big data can enhance farmer field level insights and actionable … research and institutional challenges, and the way forward for leveraging big data in research and innovation aimed at climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933850
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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia
Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856317
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Putting agricultural research into use: Lessons from contested visions of innovation
Hall, Andy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856438
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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia
Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323002